Toonpack

Death, taxes and Wellback.

FYP

Pope has sgreed/signed his option for another year, so he's here until summer '27. Good as we'd possibly be shopping for two keepers in the summer otherwise.

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Mrs is from Tynemouth, we'd do Cumberland and the Sov usually if we were down that way and not up my way in the village. Remember watching the original Texas chainsaw massacre film in the Sov one night, manager often put a hooky copy of films on.

Esplanade/South Parade avoided like the plague - poserville Whitley Bay.

I have no idea what that is 🤷‍♂️ We were more of a loose rabble or gaggle if you prefer, with our glorious long locks flowing in the breeze.

Centimetres or inches ???

That was the Ship in Monkseaton.

And fucking proud of it. I had a cracking cut off levi jacket with Quo artwork on the back.

The Avenue was the "go to" no bother getting served underage pub in my youth, don't think I ever went in after I was "legal"

Pretty much 😂 Not enough hair mind.

Aye, add Fat Sams a few times, Monkey Bar (Market Lane) Percy and The Farmers we definitely weren't students and we had shitloads of hair. Edit: The Jubilee before it became Trillians. More often we were at the coast, if Monkseaton route would be selection of Kittiwake, Beacon, Hunting Lodge, Ship, Black Horse, Monkey. In Whitley route Monkey, Ox, Ship (as was, now fuck knows) Mingles.

Farmers was other corner over the road from the supporters club shop (hut) lost the Farmers for M&S. Was always our last orders stop, where the decision would be made between home or the Mayfair.

Owners of Peppers used to own the Fat Ox in Holywell until a few (4 or 5) years ago, Ox then was a cash only pub, pretty sure it was probably some dodge to create losses in the Ox to offset profit at Peppers. Heard they'd sold Peppers for £2 Mill a while ago, could just be a village rumour, but wasn't from a usual gossip source.

Middle lad chunters on, occasional waffle from lad on right, middle lad continues to waffle on (looks at lad on left pleading for him to chip in - nowt) middle lad waffle, waffle, glances at lad on left more and more, all but pleading for him to say something, FINALLY lad on left speaks and low and behold the cunt's an Isak apologist "Gyokeres isn't blameless". Middle lad waffles to try and rescue things, patently wishing lefty had just remained shut up. Great stuff 😂😂😂

30 year old "kids" 🙄

Fuck off with that shit, stop making a spectacle of yourself.

Be a bit heavy if it's authentic and made from girders!!!

Batman couldn't make it, they were Reliant on Robin.

There's full kit wankers, then there is this:

Agreed, that's no way to hold a rifle.

It goes back to the Israeli strike in Qatar, who'd just been lavishing multi million $$$ gifts on Trump. He definitely didn't like the possible consequences of that affecting his ill gotten gains.

There's some stuff going around that this was actually a Biden initiative, but Netanyahu wouldn't countenance it: